SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 19 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Government of the Canary Islands and candidate for re-election for the PSOE, Ángel Víctor Torres, predicted this Wednesday that his party will win the elections again “with more support, more votes and more seats” and has been convinced that it will return to “preside” the Executive.
In statements to journalists after registering the regional list of socialists in Parliament, he predicted that they will once again be the only formation with representatives from all the islands in the Chamber and has defended that they will continue with the “political change” that began in 2019. and that they will “grow” the welfare state.
In this sense, he has indicated that they are going to “increase the commitment to the welfare state” in the archipelago by hiring more teachers to lower the ratios in the classrooms, more health professionals to face “the challenges” of the system and allocating more human and material resources. to the management of the unit with the aim of continuing with the “historical data” of 2022.
Torres, who has appeared accompanied by other candidates such as Gustavo Matos, Sebastián Franquis or Patricia Hernández, has stressed that the PSOE won the last elections “resoundingly” by going from 15 to 25 deputies and then there were “tremendous weeks” to form a government pact with NC, Sí Podemos and ASG that was an expression of what “mostly” the citizens wanted.
“We are convinced that we are going to win the elections again,” he indicated, and for this reason, he stressed that “the important thing” is that citizens observe that there are “two ways” to govern, that of a party that was 26 years in the Presidency, in reference to CC, or the one of the last four years with the PSOE at the head of the ‘Pact of Flowers’.
Along these lines, he has said that his party has dedicated itself to “showing its face” in the face of the “adversities” of the Legislature, which in the case of the Canary Islands also included the volcanic eruption of La Palma and a migratory crisis, and “there they are ” the results, with a “better Canary Islands” than the one they found in 2019.
However, he has insisted that “we must continue to improve, without complacency”, but he has defended that his party has “precise objectives and a clear horizon”, which involves “improving this land with pride, without regrets and without complexes”. because the Canary Islands “is not a self-conscious land”.
In fact, he has given as an example that the archipelago hosted the OECD digital economy summit, which bids for the European Tourism Agency or leads the “economic recovery” in Spain.
COMMITTING TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Torres has detailed that the Canary Islands have “more people working than ever” and some 50,000 fewer people unemployed – 3,000 of them young people compared to 2019 – and has insisted on “betting on environmental sustainability” by doubling the introduction of clean energy .
“There is the work in this Legislature, of 400 homes with photovoltaic energy we have today 10,000 subsidized, it is a symbol”, he highlighted.
He has also claimed to “bet” on the primary sector and increase human resources in the public administration and maintains that the Canary Islands cannot take “not even a step back” after having “put on time”.
Torres has put on the table that “it is necessary to increase and grow in the fundamental pillars of the welfare state” through a “fair fiscal policy” in such a way that “whoever has more has to contribute so that it reaches those who need it most needs”.
